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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE...-

HENRY A. CUPPIA, OFNEW YORK, N. Y., AssioNOR TO T HE KINNEY TOBACCOCOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part `of LettersmPatent No. 252,358, dated January17, 182.l

` Application ined octobersl, 1881. (No moan.) l

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, HENRY A. CUPPIA, a citizen of the United States,residing inlthe city of New York, county of New York, and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarettes,which improvements are fully described and represented in the followingspecification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

mouth of the user.

In the present state of the art of manufacturing cigarettes the mostimportant requirement is the provision of each cigarette with asuitablemouth-piece,which mustbeof such material as not to be injurious to themouth and lips, afford an elastic surface to admit of its easy retentionbetween the teeth, and possess porosity or other means of absorbing thenico tine and prevent the same from entering the Such mouth'pieces mustalso be comparatively inexpensive in order to permit their use inconnection with this article, which is sold at a low price.` Althoughcornstalk-pit-h, rattan, regg, rolled paper, rolled tobacco, cork, andmany other substances have been applied to this end, none has been foundso suitable as cork, which, cut into short cylinders and perforatedcentrally, forms a'mouthpiece especially adapted to the purpose, as itsupplies a soft elastic holding-surface for contact with the teeth, andat the same time provides alight inexpensive mouth-piece or holdercapacitated to absorbwhatever nicotineis given oft' in smoking thecigarette to which it is attached. Cigarettes provided with suchmouthpieces have heretofore possessed two radical `defects. They havebeen attached to the cigarette-tube by being inserted within its rearend, thus being made to depend upon weak rice-paper for theirsecurement, and hence have been so weakly attached as to frequentlybreak off or become torn, so as to admit the air and prevent a properdraft through the body of tobacco inclosed within the cigarette-tube,which mode of attachment necessitates such anv encroachment upon thetobacco-carryin g portion of the cigarette as tb limit its load orcharge of tobacco, and thus render a given size of cigarette deficientin its smoking capacity, and consequentlydefective and unsalable. Toremedy these defects it is necessary to increase the length oftobaccoholding tube or cylinder, and thus so rxtend its length as toimpart to it a further objectionable feature.

The present improvement is directed to the mode of attaching themouth-pieces to cigarettes in orderto avoid the enumerated faults, andto provide an attachmcntofgreat strength, which may be mounted upon theend of a cig- 'aretteof given size without diminishing the same in theextent of its tobacco-holdin g capacity, and which will avoid thedangerV of rupture of the fragile rice-paper enveloping the tobacco ator near the junction of it with the holder. The invention may bebrieysta'ted to consist incausing one end of the tube or barrelinclosing the tobacco and forming the cigarette proper to abut againstone end of the mouthpiece, and then enveloping the abutting ends with abinding-strip of light though strong paper or similar material, the samevbeing ot' a Width. sufficient to lap upon the cigarette-body and itsholder to an extent sufficient to form a" bond between the two and toprovide a connection, which imparts additional strength to the cigarettefor a distance sutlicient toprois then provided with its mouthpiece bylay-` ing the two together so that their ends abut, whereupon thebinder-strip a, properlysupplied with cement, is wrapped about the two,so as to envelop each and bind the two together. This may be done bylaying the binder upon a table and placing the cigarette and holder uponit, then, after' securing one end of the strip, rolling the cigaretteand holder over it until its circular attachment is complete. It mightbe accomplished by setting the cigarette up in a short mold, so that oneend projects above,

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and then resting the mouth-piece upon its nppermost edge by means of aguide, the superposed parts being thus held in position to beconveniently joined by wrapping the bindingstrip about them.

Other convenient modes ofa-pplying the binder-strip Will readily suggestthemselves to the manufacturer, whereby the employment ol' thisinvention may become expeditious and cheap.

By this improvement the very great advantage of making the cigarette upin quantities, irrespective-ot' the attachment of its monthpiece, issecured, thus enabling its cheap manufacture, which is greatly abridgedwhere a mouth-piece must be inserted within the tobacco-inclosing tubeat the time the cigarette is charged or rolled. .The objectionableincrease in thelength of cigarettes necessary to give them theirstandard charge of tobacco when provided with mouth-pieces in the oldway is avoided, and an attachment is secured which is at onceinexpensive and possessed of a great strength, which insures the perfectdraft of each cigarette, and one which removes the danger incident tothe common mode of set-nr'- ing mouth-pieces upon cigarettes-namely, theliability ot' a detachment of the mouth-piece before the 'cigarette isentirely smoked, by reason ofthe saliva softening the light and fragilepaper at thejuncture of the mouth-piece and cigarette, which thusrendered very weak readily breaks or tears and immediately destroys thecigarette. l

I am aware that a mout h-vpiece for cigars has been madevconsisting'of awooden body having a projecting rim of paper which formed the.

socket into which the cigar was inserted, and also that a cigarette hasbeen made in which the mouth-piece was inserted into the end ot' thewrapper, and thejoint between the 1nouthpiece and the tobaccostrengthened by an encircling band.- These .I do not claim; but,

Having thus described the invention, the mode ot' carrying it intoexecution, andthe merits it possesses, what is claimed is- A cigarettehaving a mouth-piece attachment abutting against its end and secured inplace by a binding-strip that envelops both the cigarette end and theend of the-mouthpiece, all substantially as described.

1n testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in thc presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

HENRY A. CUPPIA.

Witnesses: i

WM. H. BUTLER, WM. E. ARMSTRONG.

